{ "generated": "2026-05-24T17:24:44.909Z", "count": 33, "items": [ { "title": "Why you should be excited about GPT", "slug": "about-gpt", "date": "Dec 28, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a language generation model from OpenAI that has changed how we think about what computers can do with text....", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/about-gpt" }, { "title": "ACP Leadership Day on Capitol Hill 2026", "slug": "acp-leadership-day-2026", "date": "May 14, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I spent this week in Washington, D.C. for the American College of Physicians' Leadership Day on Capitol Hill. I went as part of the Georgia delegation...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/acp-leadership-day-2026" }, { "title": "A Simple Bedside Tool for Acute Heart Failure Discharge Risk", "slug": "ahf-predischarge-risk-calculator", "date": "March 7, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "Hospital discharge after acute heart failure hospitalization is one of the most vulnerable periods for patients. Studies consistently show that the first 90 days after discharge carry a high risk of rehospitalization and mortality ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/ahf-predischarge-risk-calculator" }, { "title": "Unraveling AI Lingo (Part 2)", "slug": "ai-terminolgy-tango", "date": "Apr 18, 2023", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "A glossary of AI terms that come up most often, from LLMs and transformers to hallucination and alignment. If you're trying to catch up on AI terminology, start here...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/ai-terminolgy-tango" }, { "title": "Inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha", "slug": "alpha-omega-alpha-induction", "date": "April 28, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I was recently inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha, the national medical honor society. The plaque arrived in the mail and I sat with it for a while before hanging it up...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/alpha-omega-alpha-induction" }, { "title": "Building An Evidence-Based Ambulatory Triage Calculator", "slug": "amb-triage-calculator", "date": "July 1, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "As physicians, we've all faced that familiar moment of uncertainty in clinic when a patient needs hospital admission, but we're unsure whether they should go directly to the floor or through the emergency department ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/amb-triage-calculator" }, { "title": "I Built a Mac Shortcut to Parse School Flyers", "slug": "automating-family-chaos", "date": "September 27, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "This weekend project started when my wife asked me if I could help her build something to manage the constant flood of emails and flyers she was getting daily. Between school announcements, sports schedules, and after-school activities, she was drowning in event notifications...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/automating-family-chaos" }, { "title": "Building the Azalea Report", "slug": "azalea-report", "date": "Sept 10, 2024", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I built the Azalea Report, SGMC Health's Internal Medicine Residency Newsletter, as a web app using Next.js and Decap CMS over a weekend ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/azalea-report" }, { "title": "A Christmas Reflection", "slug": "christmas-shoes", "date": "Dec 21, 2024", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "The hospital is always busy, always rushing. But sometimes a patient makes you slow down. For me, that was Mr. B., who wanted just one thing for Christmas ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/christmas-shoes" }, { "title": "Heart Stopped in a Heartbeat: The Dangers of Commotio Cordis", "slug": "commotio-cordis", "date": "Jan 4, 2023", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "Commotio cordis happens when a blunt hit to the chest stuns the heart. It's rare but serious, mostly affecting young athletes in contact sports....", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/commotio-cordis" }, { "title": "Why I Stopped Paying $150 a Month to Ask My AI the Same Questions", "slug": "consult-chain", "date": "Apr 8, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I built a system that treats AI models like a hospital. The right clinician for the right problem. Most questions don't need a subspecialist. Here's how it works, explained without jargon.", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/consult-chain" }, { "title": "She Arrived Confused and Freezing. The Numbers Told a Darker Story", "slug": "diagnosis-confused-freezing", "date": "Dec 5, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "By the time the paramedics wheeled her through the double doors of the emergency department, nothing made sense anymore. Not her words. Not her eyes. Not the numbers flashing across the monitor. She was 57, small-framed, pale, with a knitted hat pulled too low over her forehead...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/diagnosis-confused-freezing" }, { "title": "I Built a Simple Self-Service Lecture Scheduler for My Chief Year", "slug": "didactics-scheduler", "date": "Apr 5, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I recently began my tenure as chief resident. This means that, among other things, I am responsible for coordinating a full year of subspecialty didactic lectures. That includes eighty four slots and dozens of speakers, all of which have historically been tracked through spreadsheets, email threads, and memory. I wanted something better...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/didactics-scheduler" }, { "title": "Two Weeks in the Emergency Department", "slug": "emergency-medicine-experience", "date": "Mar 20, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "Each day in the emergency department starts with not knowing what's coming. During my recent two-week elective rotation as an internal medicine resident, the automatic doors would slide open and the day would begin ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/emergency-medicine-experience" }, { "title": "The Human Doctor", "slug": "empathy", "date": "June 20, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I met him on my inpatient rotation. An elderly veteran whose wife never left his side. His case taught me something about empathy that no textbook could...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/empathy" }, { "title": "A Reflection on Service and Responsibility", "slug": "hope-healing-human-kindness", "date": "July 3, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I wasn't expecting to see my own face on the elevator doors at SGMC Health. But there I was, white coat and stethoscope, next to the hospital's message...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/hope-healing-human-kindness" }, { "title": "How I built this website", "slug": "how-i-built-this", "date": "Apr 9, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "I spent a lot of time researching the best combination of complementary frameworks to build this website, and eventually settled on using NextJS to build it, hosting it in a private Bitbucket repository, and deploying...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/how-i-built-this" }, { "title": "Surviving Helene", "slug": "hurricane-helene", "date": "Sept 27, 2024", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "While Hurricane Helene tore through South Georgia, I was inside a church that had been converted into a shelter, volunteering as a resident physician alongside Red Cross staff ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/hurricane-helene" }, { "title": "Monkeypox", "slug": "monkey-pox", "date": "Jun 3, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "Monkeypox has been in the news a lot recently. The virus has been present in Central and West Africa since the early 1970s, but in May 2022 it started spreading beyond that region.", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/monkey-pox" }, { "title": "Contributing to the Pancreas Digital Open Source Insulin Bolus Calculator", "slug": "pancreas-digital", "date": "Sept 17, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "At Cognizant Softvision's Programmers' Week conference, I saw a presentation about an open-source insulin bolus calculator built by a developer for his son with Type 1 Diabetes. I decided to contribute.....", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/pancreas-digital" }, { "title": "Building a Paste App", "slug": "paste-app", "date": "Oct 20, 2024", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I kept needing to get code snippets, URLs, and notes from my computer to my phone. So I built a small paste app that sends text straight to Telegram ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/paste-app" }, { "title": "The Importance of Primary Care", "slug": "primary-care", "date": "Sept 14, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "I worked as a doctor in Ghana for over a decade, and that experience shaped how I think about primary care and why it matters...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/primary-care" }, { "title": "Why I learned R (and why you might want to)", "slug": "r-programming", "date": "Dec 24, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "I picked up R because I needed better tools for working with data. The package ecosystem, statistical analysis capabilities, and built-in support for reproducible research made it worth learning...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/r-programming" }, { "title": "Running My Own AI Assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 with OpenClaw", "slug": "raspberry-pi-openclaw", "date": "February 7, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I have been wanting to run a personal AI assistant that I actually control for a while now. Not something locked behind a browser tab that disappears when I close my laptop, but something always on, always available, running on my own hardware. When I came across OpenClaw, it checked every box.", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/raspberry-pi-openclaw" }, { "title": "How to deploy a React App to Github Pages", "slug": "react-githubpages", "date": "Aug 10, 2022", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "In this short tutorial I'll show you how to go about creating a React application and deploying it to Github Pages (a free web hosting service provided by Github)...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/react-githubpages" }, { "title": "Inside SGMC Health's Internal Medicine Residency Program", "slug": "sgmc-podcast", "date": "Jan 3, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I got to join my colleague Dr. Anna Ledford on SGMC Health's podcast to talk about what residency is actually like, our paths to medicine, and why primary care matters more than most people think ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/sgmc-podcast" }, { "title": "Six Fangs Of Georgia", "slug": "six-fangs-of-georgia", "date": "September 8, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "Margaret, a 71-year-old avid gardener, arrived at our emergency department after being bitten by what she believed was a baby rattlesnake...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/six-fangs-of-georgia" }, { "title": "Addressing Farmer Health at the 46th Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition", "slug": "sunbelt-ag-expo-2024", "date": "Oct 18, 2024", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I recently presented on skin cancer and farmers at the 46th Annual Sunbelt Agricultural Exposition in Moultrie, Georgia. The event made clear why healthcare professionals need to show up in agricultural spaces ...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/sunbelt-ag-expo-2024" }, { "title": "Building a Native Telegram Chat Viewer for macOS", "slug": "telegram-chat-viewer-tauri", "date": "October 3, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I recently built a desktop application to solve a problem I kept running into: browsing through exported Telegram chats. If you've ever exported a Telegram conversation, you know you get a folder full of HTML files that aren't particularly easy to navigate or search through...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/telegram-chat-viewer-tauri" }, { "title": "He Walked Away From the Crash. The Trouble Had Started Months Earlier.", "slug": "the-crash", "date": "Dec 10, 2025", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "The call came in as a routine trauma alert - a car had veered off the road and struck a tree just outside town. The driver, a 37-year-old man, wasn't wearing a seat belt. At first glance, his injuries appeared modest. But there were details that didn't quite fit...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/the-crash" }, { "title": "Two Patients, One Week, and the Question I Couldn't Stop Asking", "slug": "two-patients-one-week", "date": "April 5, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "The brother did not refuse to let go because he did not understand. He refused because he did not trust that the system offering to let his brother die peacefully was the same system that had ever offered his brother a fair chance at living.", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/two-patients-one-week" }, { "title": "Unraveling AI Lingo: No-Blush Guide to the Terms You've Been Secretly Curious About (Part 1)", "slug": "understanding-ai-terminologies", "date": "Apr 16, 2023", "author": "Samuel Edusa", "description": "AI can seem intimidating, but the core concepts aren't that complicated. Here's a plain-language guide to the terms you'll encounter most often...", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/understanding-ai-terminologies" }, { "title": "Watching Someone Die Never Gets Easier", "slug": "watching-someone-die-never-gets-easier", "date": "February 21, 2026", "author": "Samuel Edusa, MD", "description": "I picked up a 93-year-old woman this morning in the ICU. Septic shock. Her blood pressure was tanking despite maxed-out pressors. The family was there, exhausted, scared, confused. I've done this before. Too many times, probably. But it doesn't get easier.", "url": "https://samueledusa.com/post/watching-someone-die-never-gets-easier" } ] }